2006 Stories

A team of thirteen MPH Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health students spent January 14 to 22 in Nicaragua as part of a public health service trip sponsored by the JB Grant International Health Society.

Robert Lawrence, MD, associate dean and the Edyth Schoenrich Professor of Preventive Medicine at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, chaired an Institute of Medicine committee in 2003 to examine the impact of dioxins in the food supply.

Older adults who received mental training showed long-lasting improvements in memory, reasoning and speed of processing five years after the intervention, according to the Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly study.

The study of health behavior is really a way to determine how to design interventions that change or reinforce beliefs, explained Martin Fishbein, PhD, distinguished professor in Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

Kenrad Nelson, MD, a professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, has been elected a Fellow in the Section on Medical Sciences by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Derek Cummings, PhD, MHS, a visiting assistant professor in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics, has received a Career Award at the Scientific Interface (CASI) from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

Susan P. Baker, MPH, professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, received the Champions Award from the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR).

Richard Morrow, MD, a professor in the JHSPH's Department of International Health, received the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Health Section of the American Public Health Association.

New research from the JHSPH and other institutions has shed light on the relationship between genetic susceptibility to inflammation in the blood and risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality in dialysis patients.

States that easily permit parents to opt out of vaccinating their children for nonmedical reasons are at increased risk of pertussis (whooping cough), according to a new study from researchers with the JHSPH, the University of Florida and the CDC.

Three Johns Hopkins University researchers have been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine. Robert Blum, MD, MPH, PhD, Scott Zeger, PhD, and Chi Van Dang, MD, PhD, are among 65 new members nationwide.

Johns Hopkins University researchers and colleagues today published an article in JAMA introducing a prediction tool, called MMRpro, which identifies families with genetic defects that cause an increased risk of colorectal cancer.

George Karageorgiou, a graduate student in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Health Policy and Management, has been name president-elect of the Public Health Student Caucus.

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children today released a study revealing important information about teens, sex and the Internet. University of New Hampshire researchers conducted the study. Dina Borzekowski comments.

Ciprian Crainiceanu, PhD, assistant professor in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Biostatistics, received the 2006 American Statistical Association’s Noether Young Scholar Award.

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a report on the prevalence of medication errors in the United States. The report is the fifth of the IOM’s Quality Chasm Series examining the consequences of medical mistakes.

Francesca Dominici, PhD, associate professor in the Bloomberg School’s Department of Biostatistics, has been named the 2006 Mortimer Spiegleman Award recipient by the American Public Health Association (APHA) Statistics Section.

Diane E. Griffin, MD, PhD, the Alfred and Jill Sommer Professor and Chair of the W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, has been elected president of the American Society for Microbiology.

Holly Janes, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics, received a Young Investigator Award from the American Statistical Association’s Statistics in Epidemiology Section.

Baltimore-area residents will be better equipped to weather the first three days following an emergency if they prepare a home emergency supply kit containing a portable radio, a flashlight with extra batteries, and water.

Alfred Sommer, MD, MHS, dean emeritus and professor of epidemiology and international health at the JHSPH, was awarded the Spirit of Helen Keller Award by Helen Keller International (HKI) for his pioneering research on vitamin A.

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health today published a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association relating hospital admissions with fine particulate matter levels.

Andrea Carlson Gielen, ScD, ScM, director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, was recently elected an American Academy of Health Behavior (AAHB) Fellow.